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ELECTRICITY SAFETY ACT 2022 (NO. 32 OF 2022) - SECT 149

Documentary evidence for level 1 in-scope electrical equipment
(1)  The Director may request a responsible supplier, who at any time during the relevant period has supplied or offered to supply level 1 in-scope electrical equipment, to provide the relevant documentary evidence for the electrical equipment.
(2)  The responsible supplier must, within 10 business days after receiving a request under subsection (1) , supply that relevant documentary evidence.
Penalty:  In the case of –
(a) a body corporate, a fine not exceeding 150 penalty units; or
(b) an individual, a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.
(3)  For the purposes of this section, the relevant documentary evidence is –
(a) documentary evidence, in English, that the level 1 in-scope electrical equipment satisfied the relevant standard –
(i) in the case of a responsible supplier who is the manufacturer of the electrical equipment – that applied to the electrical equipment on its manufacture; or
(ii) in the case of a responsible supplier who is the person who imported the electrical equipment – that applied on the importation of the electrical equipment; or
(b) a certificate of suitability in respect of the level 1 in-scope electrical equipment.
(4)  Subsection (2) does not apply if –
(a) the person who supplied the level 1 in-scope electrical equipment to the responsible supplier is registered under a corresponding law of New Zealand; and
(b) the electrical equipment at the time of its importation was registered as being supplied by the person who supplied the electrical equipment to the responsible supplier under a corresponding law of New Zealand.
(5)  Subsection (2) does not apply to a responsible supplier who supplied level 1 in-scope electrical equipment imported from a body corporate outside of Australia if –
(a) the responsible supplier is a related body corporate of an NZ body corporate; and
(b) the NZ body corporate is a registered responsible supplier; and
(c) the electrical equipment is registered in the Register as electrical equipment supplied by the NZ body corporate.
(6)  In this section, relevant period in relation to level 1 in-scope electrical equipment means a period of 5 years from the date on which the electrical equipment was supplied by a responsible supplier.



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